African Americans
Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:
A. Mercer Daniel Photographic Album
A. S. Williams III Civil Rights Photograph Collection
This collection consists of photographs and manuscripts related to the United States Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). The images depict major events, key figures, and opposition from hate groups. While the collection focuses heavily on Alabama, there are additional events and locations represented.
African American Mounted Photographs Collection
A collection of thirteen black-and-white mounted portraits depicting African Americans.
Alabama Nurses Association records
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Anna Lively Letters, 1933-1937
Letters and postcards to Anna Lively of Louisville, Kentucky, primarily from her husband A. J. Lively, a porter with the Pullman Company, telling her about his travels, as well as discussing politics, religion, and personal health. There is also a promissory note to the Pullman Company for an advance on his salary.
Aunt Judy holding an infant, 1923 November
Jesse Beene letters
Two letters written from Cahawba, Alabama, to Rowland G. Hazard in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The first, dated 14 July 1839, orders shoes for Beene's sixty-eight slaves and includes a list of slaves and a measurement of their feet in inches. In the second, dated 16 December 1841, Beene expresses dissatisfaction with both shoes and prices.
Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke
Bill of sale and warrantee for an enslaved person, Zeke, sold by W. S. Adkins of Lowndes County, Alabama, for $1600. The buyer's name is illegible.
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.
Charlie J. Black papers
Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.
Buford Boone papers
Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.
Glenda Brewer research paper
Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
Brien Chapel A.M.E. Church records
Records of this African Methodist Episcopal church in Burnsville, Alabama, from 1924-1973.
Brown Hill School Trustees' minutes
Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.
Bruce A. Hood Paper
Paper entitled "Some Rambling Thoughts on the American Negro and Current Related Issues," describing life for African Americans since emancipation
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract
Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Joe W. Burleson deposition
Tuscaloosa, Alabama Circuit Court deposition, dated 3 February 1977, of the plaintiff in civil action no. 7984, Joe W. Burleson vs. National Broadcasting Co., et al.
Calhoun School Papers
Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.
Carriere and Borduzat conveyance
Notarized document dated 22 April 1836, for sale of slaves in New Orleans by (Auguste) Carriere & (Daniel Gregoire) Borduzat to Prosper Foy.
Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs
Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.
Civilians and military watching baseball game at Schofield Barracks, 1914-1918
This collection consists of 534 photographs from World War I, a drawing, and a short narrative.
Clipping about Langston Hughes, 1995
One book review for a volume of collected poems by American poet Langston Hughes (1901-1967) from The New York Times, February 8, 1995.
Creole Social Club records
Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.
W. E. B. Du Bois papers
Typewritten works by DuBois, including an essay entitled "The Future of Africa in America" as well as a list of "Books on the African American"
Farm Security Administration Photographs
The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama. Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Folder 7, 1890s
Photographs depicting unidentifed people.
Folder 9, 1890s
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 13, 1890s
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 15
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 16
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 17
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 18
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 19
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 22
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 30
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Folder 31
Photographs depicting unidentified people, church buildings, urban areas, railroad tracks, and cotton gin.
Folder 32
Photographs depicting unidentified people and places.
Folder 33
Photographs depicting unidentified people and places.
Folder 34
Photographs depicting unidentified people, factory interior, and cemetery scene.
Folder 35
Photographs depicting unidentified people, farm scene, and family portraits.
Folder 38
Photographs depicting people playing cards, portraits of unidentified people, and family portraits.
Folder 39
Photographs depicting church interior, school picnic, unidentified people, and grocery store.
Folder 41
Photographs depicting portraits of unidentified people, visit to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, fairgrounds, school children with their teachers, canoeing, and covered bridge in Cambridgeboro, Pennsylvania.
Folder 46
Photographs are depicting school children, family portraits, and other unidentified people.
Folder 48
Photographs depicting aerial view of Wallace, Idaho, a grocery store, and unidentified people.
Folder 51
Photographs depicting unidentified people, and places.
Folder 53
Photographs are depicting a river dam, construction are, unidentified families, and a school building.
Frederick D. Kennedy collection
Photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, and assorted memorabilia
Frederick D. Kennedy Vintage Glass Paperweight Collection
Vintage glass paperweight collection primarily featuring United Methodist or Methodist Episcopal churches around the turn of the twentieth century
Henry Gant Scrapbook
Scrapbook, which covers over fifty years, focuses on the Gant family of Hiller and Brownsville, Pennsylvania, particularly on Henry Gant and his sons, Gene and Tim.